Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Ruggles of Red Gap’
NR | 1 h 30 min | Comedy | 1935
If you’ve read P.G. Wodehouse’s side-splitting novels on the English valet Jeeves, you’ll appreciate the whiplash humor in “Ruggles of Red Gap.” If you haven’t, director Leo McCarey shows you what you’re missing.
England’s early 20th-century Earl of Burnstead (Roland Young) loses his beloved valet, Marmaduke Ruggles (Charles Laughton) in a game of poker to nouveau riche American couple Effie (Mary Boland) and Egbert (Charlie Ruggles) Floud. In America, Effie hopes to use Ruggles’s refinement to climb the social ladder in her town of Red Gap. Egbert wants nothing more than a back-slapping buddy….
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